Chapter 606 IES

Steve Mitnick said: "Yes, but he said that this plan is too expensive, you will never agree to it. ▼ ● But I think the most important thing you need now is money, right?"

"There is no shortage of money," Eric said with a smile. Although the Firefly Group has just issued a huge bond of 100 million US dollars, as long as Eric needs money, I believe that all banks in the United States will not refuse to provide Eric with huge loans: "But what we lack is time. Computer operating systems have been developed for more than ten years, and there are already many mature operating systems on the market. Moreover, compared to opening a brand new operating system, bypassing our software patents It's obviously easier to open a new web browser. Now that we've achieved an unparalleled dominance in this space, it wouldn't be wise to give up our dominance to other industries."

In fact, the most important reason why Eric can't say anything is that Microsoft will launch an epoch-making operating system next year. The launch of in95 means that Microsoft will unify the operating system, and then launch another Another operating system will definitely become a chicken rib. If the time can be advanced five years, Eric will definitely agree to Steve Mitnick's plan without hesitation, using the advantages of browser software to open a network-based operating system. Netscape, which developed the first successful graphical interface browser in the original time and space, once proposed an operating system plan based on the Netscape browser, and this plan was also dead because of the rise of in95. Later, Google I also planned to open a free operating system based on Google Chrome, but after the news was released, there was also no following. It can be seen that after in95, it is impossible to shake Microsoft's status in the era.

Steve Mitnick nodded disappointedly: "It seems, what you said makes sense."

Eric smiled. Although Steve Mitnick was a technical genius, he was still somewhat idealistic, though. n∈n∈net, such people are more pure, just like the two founders of Google in the original time and space, Eric can conclude that at least Steve Mitnick will focus more on technical research, And will not go to great lengths to make money. actually. Eric feels that the more people who concentrate on one thing, the more they can get.

"Actually, you should be able to guess," Eric waited for a while, then took the initiative to say: "I am here this time to integrate all three companies. The establishment of Yahoo Network Company, iehe will also officially change its name to Yahoo Browser. And Yahoo Mail, Steve, are you interested in being the bsp of this company; "No no no, Eric," Steve Mitnick shook his head immediately: "You put me on the computer screen. Sitting for a lifetime is fine, but I'd go crazy if you asked me to sit in an office or a conference room every day and do all the messy stuff like my company executives do. After a pause, Steve Mitnick added: "You'd better let Ian come, he's obviously better at running a company." Maybe I can be the (CTO) of Yahoo. "

Eric was a little surprised, and then smiled: "I always thought you were quite similar to another Steve I knew, but now it seems that the two of you are completely two types of people."

Another Steve,

Of course it was Steve Jobs. Jobs is a very manipulative person, and the guy in front of him is more inclined to be a technical maniac who is deaf.

"You mean Steve Jobs, right?" Mitnick drove past a white commercial car, followed closely behind the two cars in front, and said with a memory: "I bought it when I was at Penn. Had one, it was really a great personal computer at that time, a platform for graphical users. The innovative multimedia functions, and the processor speed of 8mhz were far away from the ibm personal computer at that time, but unfortunately after Steve Jobs left.■ Apple hasn't come out with anything good over the years."

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More than half an hour later, the three cars stopped in front of a white six-story office building near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the other side of the Charles River. Only technical computer geniuses at heart rule Yahoo's mind. Although Steve Mitnick has a very high IQ, he has no intention of running a company at all, and if he insists, it will only be counterproductive.

In addition to the bottom floor of the office building, there are several stores. The top five floors are all occupied by three companies, and the three companies currently have nearly 900 employees. Under the leadership of Steve Mitnick's three supervisors, Eric began to greet the staff in the open workspaces on each floor.

Walking into the office area on the second floor, although the space of this office building is very large, the average density of less than 200 employees on each floor is not much, but with a large number of office appliances, personal computers and other equipment, it looks messy and crowded a lot. However, seeing Eric, the big boss behind the scenes, all the employees were very interested. Some bold female employees also found a camera and excitedly pulled Eric to take a series of photos.

All the way to a lounge on the top floor, Eric sat down at the round table, smiled and said to the other people: "When I went to the Pixar studio for the first time, all the employees of Pixar also gathered together. In a very dilapidated and crowded office building, but now Pixar has its own 16-acre exclusive office park in Emeryville, San Francisco. I believe that the future of the company in your hands is far greater than that of Pixar, so all this It's all temporary."

The three companies have been burning money for several years, and they basically don’t have much income. Of course, Steve Mitnick and others do not dare to expect a better office environment. Moreover, since the three companies are showing more and more potential , they are even more indifferent to such trivial matters as the office environment. ◆

Ian Grenier, who is in charge of browser development, said: "Eric, I think it's already great here. So, let's take a look at the development results of ies, right in my office, this is what you proposed. The idea of ​​a browser literal translation language is really genius, and once IE is released, I don’t think anyone can surpass IE’s status in the browser field.”

Jeff Locke and Steve Mitnick both showed eager expressions when they heard Ian Grenier mention ies.

Eric smiled and glanced at Tina Brown, who was dazed, shook his head and smiled: "I don't need it for the time being, everyone has worked for me for more than two years. Always show it, you know where Boston can accommodate it. Will nine hundred people kick off the party together?"

This time, it was the turn of the three big men to show a blank look. Tina Brown realized that she hadn't signed an employment contract yet, so Eric deliberately diverted this topic that seemed to involve company secrets. I don't mind either. As the most famous Vanity Fair party planner after the Oscars, Tina Brown is obviously the most experienced in this kind of thing, and smiled: "Eric, if you want to arrange a party of 900 people at one time, it is best to hold an open-air party. The party. The venue can only be selected in the nearby park. I happen to know the phone number of the owner of the largest party company in Boston. They can contact the corresponding party venue as an agent, but if you want it tonight, please contact the party venue urgently to arrange All kinds of beverages, food and other facilities need to be paid more.”

Eric smiled and said, "Then please get in touch, Tina."

Tina Brown smiled slightly and said, "Okay, as you wish, boss." After that, she looked at Ian Grenier and the three of them: "Can you lend me the phone?"

"Follow me, ma'am. ▼" Ian Grenier took the initiative to get up and walked into an office with Tina Brown.

After arranging an evening staff gathering and having lunch together, Eric and Tina Brown returned to the reserved hotel together.

In the afternoon, I found a coffee shop, and Eric showed Tina Brown some documents that he had prepared, including the equity incentive contract.

After making sure she had no doubts, Tina Brown finally signed an agreement to officially join Yahoo as content editor.

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Looking downstairs through the glass windows of the hotel suite on Massachusetts Avenue, which connects MIT to Harvard Pay attention to a metropolis with a population of tens of millions. The entire Boston area has a total population of less than 5 million in a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and the resident population in the urban area is only 600,000. Perhaps it is because of this that the municipal planning appears to be so "calm". There was a strong smell of chaos.

As the boss, at a party in Boston Common across the Charles River last night, facing the enthusiastic employees of No. 900, even though they were very careful, they were still drunk and dragged back to the hotel.

His mind was still a little swollen, Eric looked at the city of Cambridge shrouded in the morning sun in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and stretched his body a little while thinking. Just walked out of the room to eat at the restaurant.

Seeing Eric walk into the restaurant, Tina Brown, who was sitting by the window seat, nodded to him, and when Eric walked over, she gestured to her breakfast that she had almost finished, and said with a smile: "Try the Boston Stuffed Baked Beans. This kind of food is rarely served in restaurants now. I didn't expect it to be here."

Boston has a nickname that is ten times more adorable than the Big Apple in New York, called Bean City, which originated from the dish called Boston Baked Beans in front of Tina Brown.

Eric is not a Westerner accustomed to sweets. He is not sensitive to this kind of food stuffed with syrup. He sat down opposite Tina Brown and just randomly ordered a sandwich and a glass of juice.

Tina Brown asked the waiter to remove her cutlery, sat patiently across from reading a newspaper today, waited for Eric to finish breakfast, and said, "Eric, I hope to take over Yahoo's business as soon as possible. The editorial team, in addition, the offices of the three companies I saw yesterday were really scattered, and it was difficult for me to concentrate on working in that environment. I called and consulted some real estate agents yesterday, and there is an office building on the same street Because the original company went bankrupt, the two floors were just vacant, and I hope to rent there."

Eric nodded with a smile: "I said, after you join the job, these are things within your authority. However, there are still many things that you need to understand together recently, so there is no need to be so anxious, when I leave Boston, you Then you can let go of your hands and feet and work hard.”

"A lot of things..." Tina Brown repeated and smiled: "For example, about that ies yesterday?"

"Yeah, but this is only one part," Eric said: "The so-called ies is the code name of a computer language that the IE browser team and two other companies have been developing since the end of last year. The full name is, this is the A brand new scripting language that is different from traditional programming languages. In simple terms, such as IE browser software, this software is mainly written in C language, but the C language code written by programmers cannot be recognized by the computer. It needs to be compiled with special software and converted into a language that the computer can recognize and execute. The new ies scripting language omits the compilation link, and web programmers can directly write this language into the web page code, and then the ie browser directly executes translate."

The scripting language is a design idea proposed by Eric to Ian Gernier and several others according to the idea developed by Netscape Browser Company in his memory. For the top computer technicians like Mitnick, some vague suggestions from Eric are enough for them to design the new ies scripting language by analogy.

Although Tina Brown didn't know much about computer knowledge, she still understood Eric's explanation, but she was still a little puzzled: "Eric, what is the function of this scripting language?"

"The main function of this scripting language is to make the original static and unchanged web pages realize dynamic changes. To give a simple example, such as web advertisements, the current Yahoo web page can only simply embed a fixed advertisement in various Among webpages with different content, although the advertisement content of different pages can also be adjusted manually, it is unrealistic to achieve complete manual operation in the face of millions of webpages in the future. But with the ies scripting language, we can It is possible to place corresponding advertisements on webpages with different content more accurately, and through dynamic code identification, movie information webpages can automatically place movie advertisements, and sports news webpages appear as sports goods advertisements.” Speaking of which, Eric drank Taking a sip of the juice, he left Tina Brown some time to think about the technical blindness, and continued: "Of course, these are not the most important, the most important point, the ies scripting language will be freely available to web developers, this language It's also very easy to learn for someone with a technical foundation, in a year or two, it's unlikely that another scripting language will appear in the industry. This plan is in line with the $100 million Yahoo that I told you about to fund the content site exhibition Angel funding, two years of rapid promotion, is enough to establish the standard format of ies in web page opening, we hold the patents of ies and ie browsers, so in the future, all websites designed through ies scripting language can only be browsed through ie I think you should be able to recognize what that means?" (To be continued.)

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